CVE-2009-3591
Dopewars 1.5.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a REQUESTJET message with an invalid location.
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 52.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Dopewars 1.5.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a REQUESTJET message with an invalid location.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Dopewars Denial of Service (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/misc/dopewarsRank normaldisclosed 5 Oct 2009
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Dopewars Server 1.5.12 - 'REQUESTJET' Message Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33269dos, linuxpublished 15 Oct 2009Verified
- Dopewars Server 1.5.12 - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 10004dos, multiplepublished 6 Oct 2009Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 52.8% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 20091006 Dopewars 1.5.12 Server Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 36961 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://dopewars.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dopewars/dopewars/trunk/src/serverside.c?r1=1023&r2=1033&pathrev=1033 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36606 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://dopewars.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dopewars/dopewars/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup&pathrev=1033 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-3572 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-3591)Record last updated .